Film

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

1969 · 4m

IMDb

6.1

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ brings an outsider’s perspective to bear on the US war, and discusses with ironic perplexity if it might not be possible to kill off the Viet Cong more cheaply. For, whilst white students in the US primarily took issue with the war in South-eastern Asia, African-Americans remained predominantly concerned with their own situation. For them, daily discrimination at home and the Vietnam War were simply two faces of the same racist coin

Adolfas Mekas

• Jonas MekasDirector

Release date

January 1, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

4m

Rated

PG-13

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